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Staffing 100 North America

The Staffing 100 North America list celebrates the remarkable leaders whose influence and accomplishments elevate the workforce solutions ecosystem and take the industry forward.  

2017 Staffing 100 North America

Travis Kalanick

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Under the leadership of co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, Uber Technologies Inc. has grown from an exclusive San Francisco-based ride-sharing service to an application used by millions of riders in more than 450 cities in 73 countries around the world. Uber’s technology-driven, on-demand staffing model has revolutionized the utilization of a flexible workforce and changed the way people travel. In July 2016, Kalanick announced that the ridesharing startup reached 2 billion cumulative trips. And in 2015, Kalanick stated that Uber was adding “hundreds of thousands” of new drivers every month. Kalanick was a runner-up for Time magazine’s person of the year award in 2015 for changing the nature of work.